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Gentlemen and ladies! I need your opinions.

I will be designing a series of carbon steel butcher knives in O1, with throw back profiles and handles.

This is an opinion thread, not so much as a design thread. I will be designing 5 pieces, in O1, bolsterless, nice wood handles, and simple pins. These will be cost effective (read affordable to damn near everybody) I am not looking to turn big profit on these, so they are going to be attractive to a broad group of users.

9-10 inch bullnosed butcher, something along in the lines of vintage american, somewhat convexed blade face, i hate the fact that the wide blade face sticks to meat all the time when portioning.
12 inch scimitar, something along the lines of victorinox scimitar
160mm stiff boning, something in between a standard western stiff boning knife and a tojiro dp gokujo boning knife

12" scimitar, not too wide of a blade road, with a bit of substantial handle for good leverage- not too dainty
and at Least 9" and very thin/narrow filet knife with a little bit of flex too it.
at least these are what I've personally been looking for...